Game Plan (company)
Game Plan was a pinball manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985.[1] Game Plan was a subsidiary of AES Technology Systems and was located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Game Plan's president was former Chicago Coin table designer Wendell McAdams.[2][3]
The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence.[4][1] The company began producing full-size tables with 1979's Sharpshooter, a "Wild West" themed table. Sharpshooter, incidentally, was Game Plan's best-selling table, having produced 4,200 units in all.[5] From 1980-1982 Game Plan also released a small number of video games, most all of them licensed from other manufacturers, beginning with Tora Tora in 1980. Other games include: Killer Comet, Intruder, Megatack, Kaos, and Pot Of Gold.
Former Game Plan designer John Trudeau, went on to design many other pinball games at Gottlieb/Premier and later Williams, including titles such as The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones (1994).[6][7] Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball.[8]
Pinball tables (full-sized and cocktail)
- Real (1978, cocktail)
- Black Velvet (1978, cocktail)
- Camel Lights (1978, cocktail)
- Foxy Lady (1978, cocktail)
- Chuck-A-Luck (1978, cocktail)
- Family Fun (1978, cocktail)
- Star Trip (1979, cocktail)
- Sharpshooter (1979, Game Plan's first full-sized pin)
- Vegas (1979, cocktail)
- Old Coney Island (1979)
- Super Nova (1980)
- Pinball Lizard (1980)
- Global Warfare (1981, widebody; only 10 units produced)
- Mike Bossy the Scoring Machine (1982, never produced)
- Sharpshooter II (1983)
- Attila the Hun (1984)
- Agents 777 (1984)
- Captain Hook (1985)
- Lady Sharpshooter (1985, cocktail)
- Andromeda (1985)
- Cyclopes (1985)
- Loch Ness Monster (1985, only one prototype produced)
References
- 1 2 Rossignoli, Marco. The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History. Schiffer Publishing, Limited. p. 81, 257. ISBN 9780764337857.
- ↑ "Game Plan Pinball History". Gameplanpinball.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ↑ Pinball Expo 1985
- ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ↑ "gameplanpinball.com". Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ↑ "john trudeau list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ↑ "ed cebula list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.